On 8/25/06, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
>> I have mine set to no and it is full of stuff. According to Konqueror
>> it has 654 files and 13 folders. Is that right? That is a lot of
>> stuff.
>
> I think it is.
>
> After setting RC_DEVICE_TARBALL to "no" and removing everything except
> /dev/console and /dev/null by using the gentoo live-cd, the number of
> my devices decreased to 850 from formerly 5200.
So doing a rm -rf /dev/* would be a bad idea? Can I just move them and
then copy them back? Or is what I have normal number wise?
You apparently missed the part of Daniel's email where he said you
have a "normal" number. Several hundred device nodes is normal (850
for Daniel, 932 here). The vast majority of which (577) are tty or
pty devices that will be on all systems. So yeah, you should be fine.
-Richard
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